12-04-2019, 03:09 PM
As an exercise and a demonstration of the capacity of my system to interpret Voynichese text as real Greek text, and to express real Greek text as Voynichese text,
I present here a line of a well-known Greek text, rendered as Voynichese text according to my system:
[ shol ar shol chaiin ol shol opchedy chol soy chaiin chaiin ychaiin chorol ]
I hope we can all agree that this does indeed look like actual Voynichese.
Note 1: In this line all three [sh] characters happen to be [sh] with an open loop on top.
Note 2: This line of 13 Voynichese words represents 8 Greek words in the original text.
I have explained before that in my system, many Greek suffixes and some other syllables can be written as separate words in Voynichese.
In some cases, it may be simply the occurrence of a typical "Voynichese word-final" letter that forces a Voynichese word break in the middle of a single Greek word.
Note 3: Please recall that in my system, [ch] can represent either a front vowel or the "rough breathing" /h/ sound that is not written with a letter in the Greek script.
The latter use of [ch] explains why it is so frequent in word-initial position in Voynichese.
It can also appear as "word-initial" in Voynichese when it is a front vowel that begins a Greek suffix which is written as a separate word in Voynichese.
I believe that a reader who knows Greek, and who knows the letter correspondence table of my system, will be able to figure out what this line of a well-known Greek text says.
Geoffrey
I present here a line of a well-known Greek text, rendered as Voynichese text according to my system:
[ shol ar shol chaiin ol shol opchedy chol soy chaiin chaiin ychaiin chorol ]
I hope we can all agree that this does indeed look like actual Voynichese.
Note 1: In this line all three [sh] characters happen to be [sh] with an open loop on top.
Note 2: This line of 13 Voynichese words represents 8 Greek words in the original text.
I have explained before that in my system, many Greek suffixes and some other syllables can be written as separate words in Voynichese.
In some cases, it may be simply the occurrence of a typical "Voynichese word-final" letter that forces a Voynichese word break in the middle of a single Greek word.
Note 3: Please recall that in my system, [ch] can represent either a front vowel or the "rough breathing" /h/ sound that is not written with a letter in the Greek script.
The latter use of [ch] explains why it is so frequent in word-initial position in Voynichese.
It can also appear as "word-initial" in Voynichese when it is a front vowel that begins a Greek suffix which is written as a separate word in Voynichese.
I believe that a reader who knows Greek, and who knows the letter correspondence table of my system, will be able to figure out what this line of a well-known Greek text says.
Geoffrey